Tiripeme Turupten

Western brother of the Tiripemencha, installed by the Relación as patron god of Irámuco (Ylamucuo). Child of Cuerauáperi (parentId) and brother — not son — of Curicaueri; the colour/direction scheme (west = white, setting sun) is attributed to the secondary literature.

Parentage

• Cuerauáperi

Domains

• cardinal directions
• setting sun

Powers

• Guards the western direction and the setting sun

Relations

• sibling: Curicaueri
• sibling: Tiripeme
• sibling: Tiripeme Quarencha
• sibling: Tiripeme Xungápeti
• sibling: Tiripeme Caheri

Sources

• Relación de Michoacán (c. 1539–41)
• Helen Perlstein Pollard, Tariácuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State (1993)